The ear plays the role of the guide in the museum in the concert I'm taking now. We don't have an oral guide, we have to provide it ourselves. One reason why active listening is absolutely essential.

I hope that my new status will be an example of Israeli-Palestinian co-existence, I believe that the destinies of the Israeli people and the Palestinian people are inextricably linked.

Today, conducting is a question of ego: a lot of people believe they are actually playing the music.

I love conducting. What I'm tired of is music administration. I don't want that. I just want to make music.

The Steinway piano is such an incomparable instrument. Due to its virtues, I am able to express all my musical feelings.

Music means different things to different people and sometimes even different things to the same person at different moments of his life.

The Germans are prisoners of their past.